Series: Death On Demand
by Author Carolyn Hart
The Christie Caper (1992)
This was a really cute and relaxed mystery. Such a good commuting book. Plus Agatha Christie makes everything awesome by proxy. But I wasn't really super invested in any of the characters. I liked them and I disliked them. They seemed awfully stereotypical. The feisty one, the calm one, the sharp...
Mint Julep Murder (1996)
ok i want to write a letter to the author telling her i will never purchase another of her books because of the gratuitous way in which she slanders conservatives. I don't know the demographics of the audience for mystery "cozies" which is what this is, but I guess it must be overwhelmingly libe...
Sugarplum Dead (2001)
I would like to preface this by saying that it was an enjoyable enough read and I kept going to see what would happen next. The story flowed well. However, I felt the whole time that this book didn't have an editor. There is almost no versatility in the author's word choice. Every other page appe...
A Little Class on Murder (1989)
"A Little Knowledge Is ..."When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach 'The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery' class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking sca...
Southern Ghost (1993)
A few weeks ago I was listening to "Book Club Girl's" BlogTalk Radio show and she was interviewing Emily Gray Tedrowe about her book "Commuters". I book I've read and reviewed earlier. Well, in the course of the interview Emily mentioned how she found it odd more author's didn't write about their...
Design For Murder (1988)
Actual Rating: 3.5 StarsThis was another quick, entertaining read in the Death on Demand series.I actually liked Annie much better in this one than the previous one. She didn't seem to be quite as abrasive or clueless as she was in the first book. Max also endeared himself to me even more--I lo...
Yankee Doodle Dead (1999)
"The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand m...
White Elephant Dead (2000)
There are good things that I liked and bad things that were annoying about this book. Good: I really enjoyed not knowing for sure what was going to happen next. Annie keeps right on getting herself into all kinds of trouble and Max keeps getting her out of it. They seemed to do more investigat...
Dead Days of Summer (2007)
I really like the Death On Demand series. Carolyn Hart's writing is always good, but I'm not as taken with her other series - the characters are somehow just not as tactile and reachable as Annie and Max and the rest of Broward's Rock.I know a lot of people don't like book series which have the ...
Death of the Party (2006)
In this book in the Death on Demand series, Max gets a commission to go to a house party on an isolated offshore island with a single owner and no cell or radio service to try to determine who was the murderer of the former owner at a party 18 months previously. Of course, Annie goes with him. ...
Something Wicked (1988)
Third in the Death on Demand mystery series set in a bookstore specializing in mysteries and run by Annie Laurence. It won an Agatha and an Anthony.My TakeThere is a very Agatha Christie feel to this mystery so it's understandable that it won an Agatha award. I have to confess that Annie was very...
Deadly Valentine (1991)
Annie & Max Darling have just moved into their new home. They have a lot of interesting neighbors, especially Sydney Cahill who goes after every man she meets, including Max. Annie is not too interested in going to Sydney's Valentine party, but Max's mother comes to visit & decides that it would ...
Honeymoon With Murder (1988)
Fourth in the Death on Demand mystery series revolving around Annie Laurance, the owner of the Death on Demand bookstore located on Broward's Rock.My TakeIt's loyalty to a friend and a search for the truth. Crane certainly takes us on a winding path to solve this murder. And as irritating as I fi...
Dead, White, and Blue (2013)
I had a little trouble staying with this story, mainly because I really wasn't that concerned about the murder victim. It was a pretty good mystery, but it didn't seem to have quite the twists and turns of previous books in the series. Having said that, I will continue to read this series as long...
Death Comes Silently (2012)
A solid murder mystery, this novel didn’t make much of an impression. It was a nice read while it lasted, it kept me interested until the end, and the tension rose steadily, but the characters were all forgettable and pretty much interchangeable. It’s the #22 in the series, and I didn’t read the ...
Laughed 'Til He Died (2010)
I'm not a huge fan of the Death on Demand series but they make for enjoyable reads. Max and Annie get caught up in a series of murders that all seem to lead back to the director of Haven. But why would Jean kill two kids? The police don't even believe that those deaths are murders much less conne...